Every Loss Recapitulates Earlier Losses, But Every

We Do Not Need To Understand Other People And Their Customs Fully To Interact With Them And Learn In The Process; It Is Making The Effort To Interact Without Knowing All The Rules, Improvising Certain Situations, Which Allows Us To Grow.

...a Disgruntled Reflection On My Own Life As A Sort Of Desperate Improvisation In Which I Was Constantly Trying To Make Something Coherent From Conflicting Elements To Fit Rapidly Changing Settings.

I Had Repeatedly Accepted Inappropriate Burdens, Stepping In To Do What Needed To Be Done. In Retrospect, I Think I Carried Them Well, But The Cost Was That I Was Chronically Overloaded, Weary, And Short Of Time For Politicking, Smoothing Ruffled Feathers, And Simply Resting.

Rarely Is It Possible To Study All Of The Instructions To A Game Before Beginning To Play, Or To Memorize The Manual Before Turning On The Computer. The Excitement Of Improvisation Lies Not Only In The Risk Of Being Involved But In The New Ideas, As Heady As The Adrenaline Of Performance, That Seems To Come From Nowhere.

Most Higher Education Is Devoted To Affirming The Traditions And Origins Of An Existing Elite And Transmitting Them To New Members.